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Home speaker emerita Nancy Pelosi mentioned the continuing menace of political violence and the hazards posed by Donald Trump’s 2020 misinformation marketing campaign in an interview Sunday on Face the Nation.
The previous prime Democrat within the decrease chamber mentioned that her husband, Paul Pelosi, nonetheless faces medical points ensuing from a violent assault he suffered in 2022, when an intruder of their residence attacked him with a hammer. The suspect, David DePape, was convicted of the violent assault and located to have been consumed by far-right conspiracy theories promoted by numerous figures aligned with MAGA Republicanism, together with the 2020 stolen election conspiracies promoted by Trump himself.
After the January 6 assault on the Capitol in 2021, Pelosi claims Trump “called out to these people to continue their violence”, arguing that her husband can be the sufferer of an assault stemming from the president’s identical rhetoric a 12 months later.
“It didn’t end that day,” she informed CBS. “My husband, being a victim of all that. And he still has injuries from that attack. So it just goes on and on and on. It isn’t something that just happens, and then it’s over.”
She was requested by Margaret Brennan about Trump’s continued assertion that he was the rightful winner of the 2020 election, and what impact that has on the county. Brennan identified that Trump in latest days screened a documentary disputing the election outcomes at Mar-a-Lago.
Pelosi responded that it was “sad” for the president-elect to nonetheless be fixated on his defeat 4 years in the past.
“It’s almost sick… He should be triumphant about [winning the 2024 election],” Pelosi mentioned. “So for him to be trying to fight a fight that he knows he lost is really sad.”
.@SpeakerPelosi says she would not imagine the American individuals disregarded the Jan. 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol assault by voting to reelect Donald Trump, however “they only had a special view as to what was of their curiosity, economically and the remainder.” Trump’s continued efforts to falsely… pic.twitter.com/km4MOA8SGp
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) January 5, 2025
Pelosi’s get together will spend not less than the primary two years of the second Trump presidency within the minority in each chambers of Congress. Within the Home, nonetheless, the Republican Get together will solely management a single-digit majority. Speaker Mike Johnson shall be pressured to unify a chaotic and unstable caucus to go any laws.
Republicans within the Home and Senate are already looking for to mood the incoming president’s expectations whereas sustaining the looks of full-throated help for his political agenda.
Paul Pelosi suffered extreme accidents after being attacked by an intruder trying to find his spouse
The speaker emerita has lengthy been a spotlight of among the most intense hatred from the far proper of any politician. Brennan individually famous throughout her interview with the primary feminine speaker (a title which fueled a lot of that hatred on the precise) that the Home that rioters who besieged the Capitol advanced on January 6 overtly made threats in opposition to her life, as they did with Vice President Mike Pence after the latter refused to intrude within the election certification course of and trigger a constitutional disaster.
She stepped down from the position after the 2022 midterm elections, passing on the position of Home Democratic chief to Hakeem Jeffries. Final week, she was awarded the presidential Medal of Freedom by Joe Biden.
